Hay Making 2021

Pan mixer · Aug 3, 2021

Sun shone this afternoon so I went out and rolled over the night rows for the first time in a week.

Have organised baler to tie this up ready for a bonfire, 50 acres

bobk · Aug 3, 2021

Pan mixer said:
Sun shone this afternoon so I went out and rolled over the night rows for the first time in a week.

Have organised baler to tie this up ready for a bonfire, 50 acres

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Won't the power stations take it

delilah · Aug 3, 2021

bobk said:
Won't the power stations take it

Beat me to it, there's alot of ruined hay on the ground round here, was told this afternoon that they're going to try that route for it, seems the only criteria is that it wont combust before they want it to.

Grassman · Aug 3, 2021

delilah said:
Beat me to it, there's alot of ruined hay on the ground round here, was told this afternoon that they're going to try that route for it, seems the only criteria is that it wont combust before they want it to.

Where's "here"?

glasshouse · Aug 3, 2021

Pan mixer said:
Sun shone this afternoon so I went out and rolled over the night rows for the first time in a week.

Have organised baler to tie this up ready for a bonfire, 50 acres

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Why?
Ted it out and leave it to rot

bobk · Aug 3, 2021

Grassman said:
Where's "here"?

In her house

Pan mixer · Aug 3, 2021

bobk said:
Won't the power stations take it

no, straw only now apparently.

Pan mixer · Aug 3, 2021

glasshouse said:
Why?
Ted it out and leave it to rot

Some of that is going into wheat and I don't want the residue, when I have tried this before it was a failure.

I have too much else to do to bother turning it again, baler man has too much to do now that straw is upon us, I have 100 plus acres of hay to mow and harvest as well.

essexpete · Aug 4, 2021

We had nearly 60mm during July in SE Essex, with only a handful of consecutive dry days. Ground wet so haymaking involved much tedding. Still have a few acres to mow, looking poor. Chelmsford area had over 80mm as did parts of south Kent. Apparently one of the wettest July months since 1987 in parts of Kent.

glasshouse · Aug 4, 2021

essexpete said:
We had nearly 60mm during July in SE Essex, with only a handful of consecutive dry days. Ground wet so haymaking involved much tedding. Still have a few acres to mow, looking poor. Chelmsford area had over 80mm as did parts of south Kent. Apparently one of the wettest July months since 1987 in parts of Kent.

som farmer · Aug 4, 2021

Pan mixer said:
Sun shone this afternoon so I went out and rolled over the night rows for the first time in a week.

Have organised baler to tie this up ready for a bonfire, 50 acres

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years ago, in a shite summer, we burn't a far bit in the lines, nwe ley by the farm, it was black, old man wouldn't burn it, so little baled it, the new green, and the black, got completely black hauling it, didn't actually smell bad, so put in a barn, the hfrs went absolutely nuts for it, smelt really nice, not a hay smell though.
Wouldn't happen today, baled and wrapped, long before 'lost' time,

Pan mixer · Aug 4, 2021

som farmer said:
years ago, in a shite summer, we burn't a far bit in the lines, nwe ley by the farm, it was black, old man wouldn't burn it, so little baled it, the new green, and the black, got completely black hauling it, didn't actually smell bad, so put in a barn, the hfrs went absolutely nuts for it, smelt really nice, not a hay smell though.
Wouldn't happen today, baled and wrapped, long before 'lost' time,

I wrapped a fair bit of the stuff that I had on the ground but I have a rule of thumb - if it has been dry enough to have been hay (more or less) and then gets wet, wrapping just makes it unpalatable and dusty.

The stuff above was almost hay, we baled the next door bit but got rained out, then rained again and again, never got dry enough.

So, this morning started to rake it up so as to get the baler before the neighbouring thousands of acres of straw were dry enough, this went well until something major went bang in the baler.

glasshouse · Aug 5, 2021

Pan mixer said:
I wrapped a fair bit of the stuff that I had on the ground but I have a rule of thumb - if it has been dry enough to have been hay (more or less) and then gets wet, wrapping just makes it unpalatable and dusty.

The stuff above was almost hay, we baled the next door bit but got rained out, then rained again and again, never got dry enough.

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So, this morning started to rake it up so as to get the baler before the neighbouring thousands of acres of straw were dry enough, this went well until something major went bang in the baler.

A scene from hell
How does hay look through a bedding machine?

Cowmansam · Aug 5, 2021

glasshouse said:
A scene from hell
How does hay look through a bedding machine?

Wraps round and round most thre time

onthehoof · Aug 5, 2021

Straw yields looking impressive though, wouldn’t want to be paying above £65/t at the moment

alex04w · Aug 5, 2021

This ground was reseeded 2 years ago. Baled on 1st July and a very heavy crop of grass - it was just shy of 15 bales to the acre.

Pan mixer · Aug 5, 2021

glasshouse said:
A scene from hell
How does hay look through a bedding machine?

Too dusty to put near livestock.

som farmer · Aug 5, 2021

Pan mixer said:
Too dusty to put near livestock.

used to be no choice, best soft hay, calves, next dairy, then y/s, and worst chucked out for dry cows,
what we made, was what had to be fed, no other choice, silage, and big bales, have made a huge difference, to how we used to feed.
We used to make outside ricks, every year, can remember building them, sheeting them, but not really taking the hay out of them, but recall feeding it, off the back of a trailor, was it so bad, as best forgotten ?

jendan · Aug 5, 2021

alex04w said:
This ground was reseeded 2 years ago. Baled on 1st July and a very heavy crop of grass - it was just shy of 15 bales to the acre.

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Are you going to sheet them?

FG. · Aug 5, 2021

glasshouse said:
A scene from hell
How does hay look through a bedding machine?

I should think it would look similar to when my old chap used to spread slag on the fields.

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